I feel like a lot of pros showed up to the PT with Esper because the turn around was just too quick to fully explore the format. Couple that with the largest card format ever and its hard to get away from the tried and true. As a side note I am furious I didnt buyout Ancient Cornucopia when I thought it was too low. Awesome content as always, Jim!
I highly expect Ancient Cornucopia to come back down again, although maybe not to its previous lows. It's currently at peak hype. Just wait a few weeks.
Damn. Kaya putting in some work. That, btw, folks is why hexproof is far far worse than Ward. I keep seeing people say "ah. I'd rather just deal with hexproof than ward!" But those people are idiots. Sorry.
First OP is kinda why I dislike it so much when a lot of streamers just scoop at the first sign of resistance instead of playing it out. I understand that plenty of times that match is like the twentieth match they played that day and they're just done, but it honestly makes for bad watching: "oh, the deck didn't instantly flatten the opponent's tier one deck, guess I better scoop and save five minutes of my time". P.S. I know it sounds like I'm talking about JIm, but I'm not, this is other people doing it.
People were ragging on Ancient Cornucopia during preview season, but I kept thinking that it looked like it was of comparable power level to The Celestus which is certainly a Standard-playable card.
It's definitely one of the "uncommons" from Big Score, but as far as uncommon powerlevel goes, it's a good one. Sucks that I need to spend Mythic wildcards to craft it.